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County Statistics File 3 (CO-STAT 3): [United States] (ICPSR 9168)

Principal Investigator(s):
United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census

Summary:

This compilation of data, which was gathered from a variety
of federal agencies and private organizations, provides information for
the United States as a whole, the 50 states and the District of
Columbia, and 3,139 counties and county equivalents (defined as of
January 1, 1983). Data are included for the following general areas:
age, ancestry, agriculture, banking, business, construction, crime,
education, elections, government, health, households, housing, labor,
land area, manufactures, money income, personal income, population,
poverty, retail trade, service industries, social insurance and human
services, veterans, vital statistics, wholesale trade, and journey to
work.

This compilation of data, which was gathered from a variety
of federal agencies and private organizations, provides information for
the United States as a whole, the 50 states and the District of
Columbia, and 3,139 counties and county equivalents (defined as of
January 1, 1983). Data are included for the following general areas:
age, ancestry, agriculture, banking, business, construction, crime,
education, elections, government, health, households, housing, labor,
land area, manufactures, money income, personal income, population,
poverty, retail trade, service industries, social insurance and human
services, veterans, vital statistics, wholesale trade, and journey to
work.

Access Notes

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Study Description

Citation

United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census. County Statistics File 3 (CO-STAT 3): [United States]. ICPSR09168-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1989. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09168.v1

Universe:
The universe varies from item to item within the file,
e.g., all persons, all housing units, all local governments, etc.

Data Type(s):
aggregate data

Data Collection Notes:

The data file contains 3,191 records: one for the
United States, each state and the District of Columbia, and 3,139
counties or county equivalents. (Three fields in the file identify
counties which were in metropolitan areas as of June 30, 1988.)

Each logical record has been divided into ten 1,888-character segments.

There are two footnote files on the data tape, one for
crime-related variables and one for all other subject areas. Each
record in the footnote files consists of an item label, a geographic
code, and a footnote reference number. The text corresponding to the
footnote reference number is contained in Appendix A of the codebook.
Footnotes associated with specific data cells qualify the data in one
way or another. Some examples include a reference period different from
the norm or the combination of data for two or more areas. The data
user is urged to review the applicable footnotes for the items to be
used.

The data dictionary for this collection is not designed for
direct use with any software package.

The time periods covered for
each data item vary. For data series that are available on an annual
basis, several years of data will generally be presented. For decennial
census and economic census data items, comparable information from a
prior census is available in many cases.

Methodology

Data Source:

federal agencies including the Bureau of the Census, the
Bureau of Economic Analysis, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the
Social Security Administration, and private organizations such as the
Elections Research Center and the American Medical Association